Roundup: Brunswick hockey doubles up Rye Country Day

Published 11:22 pm, Wednesday, December 16, 2009

One of the Brunswick ice hockey team's struggles during the first few games this year has been playing a full 54 minutes of hockey. The Bruins have been in every game and stayed close with its Division I opponents, but there always seems to be a point in a game were the Bruins falter allowing their opponents to take the lead.

Finally however the Bruins broke through with a 4-2 win over Trinity Pawling heading its annual trip to the St. George's Tournament in Rhode Island.

"We played every shift hard today and really took care of the puck," Brunswick assistant Mike Kennedy said. "We've been in every game we've played and have played hard but lost but today we really played the full game."

The Bruins wasted little time jumping on the Wildcats scoring barely six minutes into the game with junior John Kelly getting credit for the goal. Brunswick continued to dictate the scoring pace again at the 16:24 mark of the first period with the goal coming from John Hayden on assists by Bo Stafford and Toshi Terai.

The squads would trade goals in the second and third periods with the Bruins getting tallies from Ben Weisburger and varsity new-comer Kevin Duane.

The game was won though on defense. Save for a few brief rushes, Brunswick's defense, lead by Nick Trepp, kept Trinity Pawling from generating much offense. And though sophomore goalie Gryphon Richardson faced 28 shots, saving 26, Kennedy said that most of those shots were not point-blank.

For as long as Maura Foster has been the coach of the Convent of the Sacred Heart swim team, she has always looked to the first meet against a major New England contender as the benchmark meet for her Tigers. Sometimes they have won, sometimes they have lost. But never have the Tigers won as big as they did Wednesday against Loomis.

In dominant fashion, Sacred Heart defeated the Pelicans 109-74 to climb to 2-0 on the season

"I'm really excited for the girls," Foster said. "This was the kind of meet that will put the girls in the right frame of mind going into the rest of the season."

"We've never won this big against Loomis," Foster said. "The girls were all really excited about how well we did."

Girls Basketball

Greenwich Academy got the better of cross-town rival Convent of the Sacred Heart Wednesday with a 37-32 victory.

It was a back-and-forth match that saw the Gators run out to big leads before the Tigers would go on a run of their own. In the end however GA made several key shots in the final minutes to secure the five-point victory.

"Fortunately we hit some shots at the end to get the win," GA coach O'Neil Medley said.

Freshman Galen Hughes lead GA with 10 points including a key second-chance basket following a missed free throw by Katherine Stack with less than a minute to play.

Sacred Heart was lead by Erin Aoyama, who had 10 points and was 6-for-6 on free throws. Ten Tigers scored allowing them to stay with GA the whole game.

Brien McMahon 53, Greenwich 37: Despite a 19-point effort by Erin Laney, the Cardinals fell to 0-3 with their loss to Brien McMahon. Tori Dobson and and Jessica Fischella each had six points in the loss with Jennifer Biagiotti tacking on five.

"This was a great game from the standpoint that every grade scored freshman, sophomore, junior and senior," Gators coach Moe Tarrant said. "We also had both goalies, senior Alexa Pujol and freshman Camilla Vik get in."

According to Tarrant GA played flat to begin the game but as soon as the offense kicked in the Gators picked themselves up.